Family Resemblances

I've been researching our family tree for going on 29 years.  From time to time I'm lucky to find an old picture of one of our ancestors.  It amazes me to see the family resemblance of the people I find to the people that I know.  Sometimes you just know instantly that that is a picture of someone related to your loved ones.  The picture above is a recent find of a man who was born around the same time as my father in law.  They have both passed on so we don't really know if they knew each other or not.  More than likely they didn't know each other.  They were 3rd cousins according to my family tree program.  The picture below is my father in law.  

 

 Do you see the family resemblance?  When I showed it to my husband he seen it right away as did I as soon as I see it as well.  I am in contact with the grandson of the man in the picture above.  He was also amazed at the resemblance.  His grandmother is still living and was so happy to see the picture I found of her husband.  I was told it put a smile on her face.  She's living with her grandson during her final days here on earth.  It warms my heart to know that I put a smile on her face. It's the little things that makes me happy. 

Angela

I'm Back!

I have been thinking a lot about blogging again.  I do miss it.  I'm going to make a better attempt at trying to at least put up something once a month if not once a week.  A lot of the blogs that I follow are no longer blogging from what I can tell.  I think fb consumed many of us.  I really don't like how fb works.  I get tired of seeing the same posts that friends in common share at the same time.  I still love seeing some corgi fb posts though.  I've also been working very hard on my family tree.  I love genealogy too much!  I've found a lot of distant cousins that are also working on their family lines.  We share information and have more complete trees that way. 

Here's a little update on a few things that have happened since I last blogged.  My young lady is now a married lady.  My young man is now a teenager.  My corgi, Jazz, is still corging along.  I'm still married to one of the best gifts that God has given me.  I recently lost my mom to copd.  I'm heartbroken over this and I might share more later.  If you followed me and know of the breast cancer I had 6 years ago then you'll be happy to know that I'm still doing great.  I did my 5 years on tamoxifen and so far every test my doctor put me through the past few months came back negative for any cancer in my body.  Praise the Lord!  My doctor put me through CT Scans, PET Scans, Bone Scans and I even had to have a MRI.  Everything came back negative.  I might share more about that at some point too.  Life has really changed a lot for me as you can tell from the updates.  It is different not having your children all living at home.  And now I have to get used to another new normal of not having my mom who was also my best friend to share my ups and downs with.  God is helping me get through it all.

I'll share more later.  I have been thinking of some posts that I want to do and I'm gathering information for that.